In the 2025 Bihar election, two headline-grabbing outcomes have captured the spotlight: a sweeping victory for the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) and a record voter turnout unseen in more than seventy years. Yet, the most defining aspect of this election may well be who turned out to vote and in what numbers. What sets the 2025 election apart is not just the NDA’s big win, but the historic rise in turnout among Bihar ’s women voters. For the first time in Bihar’s history, women not only outnumbered men at the polling booths but also shattered turnout records. While the overall turnout stood at 66.91 per cent, an extraordinary 71.6 per cent of women cast their votes, nearly nine percentage points higher than the 62.8 per cent turnout among men. In sheer numbers, women outv

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